The forms are making me click "next 75 posts" to see what current. I swear I didn't change anything in my settings... Does anyone have an idea what it could be?

Some threads turn over very quickly, and can easily rack up 100 posts a day. Loading ALL the messages in such a thread can be time-consuming on a slow internet connection. The forum software has a function to limit the number of posts loaded.

On your account page, under "Preferences", click on "community preferences"
Under "Message Display" there is a setting for how many messages to display on long threads. I think the default is 75, but you can change it to whatever number you want.
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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Correct. It has changed to how many posts you want to view per page, I think it defaults to 20, and then gives you the option when viewing to go to the next page. It just means that there isn't an option any more to click on show all messages. I believe this was done to make it easier for people with slow machines or those on dial-up, who would be unlikely to alter community settings anyway.

I think that it's quite a good idea, almost any machine should be able to cope with 20 at a time, and how often do we need to go back that far anyway. If we do there is still a search option for a quick find.

Correct. It has changed to how many posts you want to view per page, I think it defaults to 20, and then gives you the option when viewing to go to the next page. It just means that there isn't an option any more to click on show all messages. I believe this was done to make it easier for people with slow machines or those on dial-up, who would be unlikely to alter community settings anyway.

I think that it's quite a good idea, almost any machine should be able to cope with 20 at a time, and how often do we need to go back that far anyway. If we do there is still a search option for a quick find.

Yes, it was a feature request from somebody working (temporarily) on the end of a slow mobile connection.

I think this a just a first rough draft - there is an invitation:

I added a "posts per page" preference,
which replaces the existing preferences.
This is deployed on SETI@home.
Please comment.
-- David

Correct. It has changed to how many posts you want to view per page, I think it defaults to 20, and then gives you the option when viewing to go to the next page. It just means that there isn't an option any more to click on show all messages. I believe this was done to make it easier for people with slow machines or those on dial-up, who would be unlikely to alter community settings anyway.

I think that it's quite a good idea, almost any machine should be able to cope with 20 at a time, and how often do we need to go back that far anyway. If we do there is still a search option for a quick find.

Yes, it was a feature request from somebody working (temporarily) on the end of a slow mobile connection.

I think this a just a first rough draft - there is an invitation:

I added a "posts per page" preference,
which replaces the existing preferences.
This is deployed on SETI@home.
Please comment.
-- David

on the boinc_dev mailing list.

It doesn't help much if you have to click through the entire list of posts to get to the end. Features needed. A list of pages at the bottom of the page and a link to go to the first unread post.
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I will cast my vote to end this next 75 post stuff. Thats is a down right pain. Worse is you have top back arrow all those pages to get to the cafe page. Should have left it alone.
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Old James

Strangely, I noticed no difference at all. I have always had mine set at 75, I have newest post at the top and "Jump to first new post in thread automatically" ticked, so until my attention was drawn to the fact I had not noticed.
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Indeed. I disapprove of this change. Instead of just seeing a short list of the newest posts. I either have to click through several pages or just have them all be displayed.
It wouldn't be as bad if the "Jump to first new post in thread automatically" wasn't broken in the process of the change I suppose.
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Indeed. I disapprove of this change. Instead of just seeing a short list of the newest posts. I either have to click through several pages or just have them all be displayed.
It wouldn't be as bad if the "Jump to first new post in thread automatically" wasn't broken in the process of the change I suppose.

I agree. This way the forum is pretty much broken, they introduced pages (which is a good thing, now we should not need any limits for panic and other long threads like it is not necessary in any other "normal" forum), but not all the stuff you need to actually use the pages.
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You'll never please everybody all of the time. It's worth trying the new way, if too many people don't like it then they can simply go back to the old way. It's not the end of the world one way or another. As I've said before, real life to me is the pub over on the corner. Too many people take this place too seriously :-)

Strangely, I noticed no difference at all. I have always had mine set at 75, I have newest post at the top and "Jump to first new post in thread automatically" ticked, so until my attention was drawn to the fact I had not noticed.

As you, I have the sort order, newest post on top, so there is no difference at all. (Why I should have to wait for all the posts to load when I want the newest first, I could never understand)

Strangely, I noticed no difference at all. I have always had mine set at 75, I have newest post at the top and "Jump to first new post in thread automatically" ticked, so until my attention was drawn to the fact I had not noticed.

As you, I have the sort order, newest post on top, so there is no difference at all. (Why I should have to wait for all the posts to load when I want the newest first, I could never understand)

So with Jump to first new post does that mean you have to scroll up to read them in order?
I like to read posts chronologically. So reading down the page, as with normal reading, to see the 5 newest post makes sense to me.

Ive liked more the previous way in which I was able to show only the first and some of the latest posts...

Having pages its not a bad option, what is wrong is that there is no direct links to specific pages... Which means now I have to download all the posts in a thread to read the newest ones, as the "next x" button dosnt appear until all the page was downloaded.

I have the posts sorted as older first and with that setting it seems that the "go to the first unread post" dosnt work, (until now It goes allways to the first page...)

Also, going back to some specific forum section was easy using the back buttom of the browser, now you need to go back several times or use the history to jump back, anyway while this is not a big issue as there are links in the thread tittle to go the forum section, it was faster for me in the other way.

I think that if a new feature is needed, the right way is to just add it leaving everything as it was and giving the option to use or not that new feature.